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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

vRICHARD R. METHEANY, CE GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 471,876, dated March 29, 1892.

Application iiled December l0,- 1891. Serial No. 414,636. No model.)

To all whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, RICHARD R. METHEANY, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway Passenger-Tickets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a railroad passenger-ticket constructed so as to be used Vas a conductors check and memorandum and for various other purposes hereinafter named.

The invention consists in the arrangement in one column of marks or figures indicating dollars and marks or figures indicating cents, the marks indicating dollars being separated from the marks andiigures indicating Cents, and arranged so that a portion of the ticket may be removed, one end oi' which removed portion will indicate the number of dollars paid by the passenger and the other 'end will indicate the number of cents paid by the passenger, the endsl of the ticket being united together so as to forni a loop lfor the purpose of convenience in using the same and for the purpose of leaving wit-h the conductor a full memorandum of the amount paid by the passenger, together with the name or number of the station from which the passage began and the name or number of the station at which the passage ends, the object of the invention being to furnish a railroad-ticket which can be readily and quickly used, and which will leave in the hands of the passenger a receipt and memorandum, and will alsoleave with the conductor or person selling or issuing the' ticket a memorandum corresponding with the memorandum received by the passenger or person using the ticket.

The drawings hereto attached illustrate theV `at the head ofthe ticket.

A. This projection, however, would be dispensed with when the tickets were unbound. When the ticket is used as a railroad-ticket and passenger-check, at one end ot' the ticket are placed letters or gures indicating the road on which the ticket is to be used, with a blank space to indicate, by number or name, the station at which the passage began, and

also a blank space to indicate the number or name ot the stat-ion at which the passage ends.

Below this are marks indicating dollars and terminatingwith a single dollar-that is, if

the highest number of ldollars indicated was ten it would read downward, l0 9 8 7 6 5 4L 3 2 l. Below the dollar-marks is a memorandum corresponding with the memorandum at the head of the ticket, and to which may be attached other memoranda, if desired. Below this memorandum may be placed the number of the ticket to correspond with the number Below this memorandum are arrangedthe marks indicating cents, beginning with the lowest number of cents used, and then increasing upward to 95. I prefer to begin with five cents, or a -number indicating live, and proceeding upward in that ratio to 95, as that. will give the ticket about the right proportions; but in -case it should be found desirable the progression may be by units, or by any other numbers which may be found convenient in using my improved ticket.

It will be noticed that the numbers indicating dollars increase in one direction, while the numbers indicating cents increase inthe other direction, thus enabling the user of the ticket to tear off the number indicating dollars and the number indicating cents and leave the same attached to the passengers memorandum or check. To illustrate, suplpose that the cost of the passage was one dol- -r IOO &c.,or whatever else might be printed on this part of the ticket, VWhereas the conductor would have attached together a memorandum corresponding with the memorandum given the passenger, together with the remainder of the marks indicating dollars and the remainder of the `marks or gures indicating Cents, which would shoT precisely what had been paid by the passenger, the nameor number of the station at which the passage began, the name or number of the station towhich he had paid his fare, and such other memoranda as might be found desirable on a passenger-ticket.

In cas-es Where the ticket was used separate from the book the stub orlmemorandum left in lthe hands of V.thelconductor would be, after .the separation, a single piece of paper, .and thereceiptand memorandumlettintheliands of the .passenger would be a single v.piece of paper. Thestub or .memorandum left in the, handsof the .conductor would `be `Vreturned to the .company in the ordinary imanner. l

^lllave referred to the memorandum as .being-at the headof lthe ticket; but litwill be evlident .that :the memorandum may beplaced ateither endof .the ticket, or citherend of Y the .ticket .may .be called .the headxof thev ticket.

Ideem this ticket as V.particularlyuseful to; theconductor .in issuing .a check Ito `the passen-ger; Vbut it .isevident that it may-be .used for various -`other purposes, as in a ,retaill store, where aclerk-:on selling anrarticle would return to .the book-.keeper With the money the portion of thecheck removedinorder to show the .exact pricezat which :the article -Was sold. This .would leave in the hands of the clerk makingtlie sale almemorandum corresponding with the-,one retainedby the book-keeper; or it may .be :used in various other-places Where it is desirable to give azreceipt and-memorandum-and .retaina memorandum.

Any .ordinary method may be used for `.attacliin'g theendsvof .the ticket together in-order toorm a zloop-ticket,.and.incasethetickets are bound in a book ordinary binding may be used.

Having thlusfdescribed my n-ventionfwhat I claim =to.have.invented,and desireto-secure p by Letters 4Patent,is

l, :In `acombination ,ticket and receipt,a

; dollars and marks or figures indicatingcents,

.and of marks indicating cents, a memoranstrip of paper or other suitable material having its yends fastened together, .forming aloop, a column of marks or gures indicating dollars and cents, with the numbers indicating dollars running in an opposite direction from the numbers indicating cents, substantially as .and for the purpose described.

2. The combination, on a strip of paper or other suitable material, of a column with marks indicating dollars and marks indicating cents, with a memorandum between the marks indicating dollars and the marks indicating cents, and a memorandum at one end vofthe column, the ends of said strip being -fastened together so as to form a loop, substantially as described.

3. vA ticket composedof afstripof IApaperor other material, havingratoneiend a memorandum with blanks for the name-of fthe station from which the passage lbegama blank giving the .name of the :station at which :the passage ends, .a column of marks or gures'indicating a memorandum betweenthie,dollarsand cents similar to the memorandumat l,theheadof-:the ticket, said marks -indicatingdollars increasing in `amount from .the f centerinemorandirm and t he 2marks indicatingcents ,increasingin amount romthe center memorandum,:sub-

stantially as d escribed.

4. -l-n .a,railroad-ticket'composed1of .a :strip of paper with its ends :attachedtogetherfa memorandum -indicatingthe roaduponiwhich such .ticket is to housed, also Iblanks for the stations from which and towhich the passen- ,ger Was going, ltogether with 4the date of the ticket, a column otA marks indicating dollars the marksor figures indicating cents arranged 95 `so :as .to increase in a direction .away from ythe `center memorandum, substantially as described In Witness whereof I-have .hereunto set my handand sealinth epresence ofttwo Witnesses. mo

,RICHARD R. METHEANY. [L.s.-] Witnesses: f

HARRY P. VAN WAGNER,

ALEX. B. FERGU-soN. 

